valas

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by valas 4y ago
You complain that the bar keeps getting raised. Is there some good write up by someone who believes AGI is possible and how it might look like? I.e. what is your definition of the bar where you will say 'now, this is AGI'?
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by valas 5y ago
I can confirm that I keep seeing Economist's predictions re China debt not pan out, though I started paying attention only ~10 years ago. Do you have any books to recommend on China's financial system to help give perspective alte
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by valas 5y ago
$3.6B is at peak valuation. The actual contributions maybe much lower?
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by valas 6y ago
"read some Marx"... do you have some book in mind? Perhaps some good summary? I hear Capital is hard to parse. So far my experience in trying to distill Marx is that he did reasonable assessment of the state of affairs at the time
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by valas 6y ago
How do you invest in gold?
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by valas 7y ago
I agree that the number of games compared to established platforms is small. But what can you expect? This is a new entrant, all the new platforms faced similar issues. Some overcome it, some didn't, we'll see how it goes here. Fo
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by valas 7y ago
The article does not support the title. The facts also do not support the article. Stadia launched with 3 indie games, one of them exclusive. In just the last week they added 3 more indie-ish games (Spitlings and 2 titles from SteamWorld).
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by valas 7y ago
Looking at the overflowing hospitals in Wuhan, I'm preparing for the possibility of being mildly sick at home and not being able to get a bed in the hospital. The best hope is then that somehow we reduce chance of cross-infection insid
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by valas 8y ago
Transparency is good and all, but there is anther way. In most advanced economies professional bureaucracy figures out the costs. Ordinary folks focus on getting healthy, not on costs.
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by valas 8y ago
Perhaps you are right --- Amazon would not be punished in this way. But likely you are right for different reasons than you think? US government can put US executives in jail. I'm sure it would put them in jail. You have to remember wh
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by valas 9y ago
"it would be as slow as conventional rail" - citation? Even Reason Foundation (which is as biased as it gets - it's funded by Koch brothers and ideological critic of almost any government investment) claim SF to LA times will
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by valas 9y ago
Is it really more environmentally 'sustainable' to live in a van than in an apartment in a dense city? Don't we get economies of scale in cities?
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by valas 9y ago
It's quite possible the security firm was asked to audit their systems, but not asked (or paid) to fix them.
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by valas 9y ago
What do mean by 'loosing control of their business ... to their employees'?
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by valas 9y ago
Disclaimer: I worked on this technology. I agree, article could be improved. In a nutshell, Espresso system allows (logically) centralized, fine-grained control of how bits leave Google's network. Specifically, each server has a tailor
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by valas 9y ago
Google's response: https://www.blog.google/topics/public-policy/responding-camp...
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by valas 9y ago
Bigger picture is that agents conventionally get 6%, which is obnoxious in the Internet age. Sure 1% maybe is not much, but anything that helps to squeeze that industry is great. No?
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by valas 10y ago
Try Google search for "TPP impact study". There are quite a few reputable studies done. According to [0], the impact to the US would be small and positive when compared to baseline no-TPP scenario (e.g. 0.07% employment gain, 0.23
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by valas 10y ago
Many are upset about proposed dispute resolution regime ('suing'), but is it much different from how WTO works? AFAIK in WTO countries sue other countries on behalf of their corporations [0]. BTW, your first citation is an opinion
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by valas 10y ago
Was that Apple vulnerability actively exploited in the wild during the delay?
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by valas 10y ago
Why rumors are "a huge problem" in China? Is it because common folk is too easy to fool? If so, wouldn't April's fools day improve critical thinking?
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by valas 11y ago
What sort of transparency would satisfy you in this case?
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by valas 12y ago
On which specific part? E.g. networking research has ton of these kind of papers: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2006/estan06achieving... They never go beyond modeling and simulation because, if you read s
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by valas 12y ago
Someone: can you explain why Swiss National Bank could not sustain keeping the value if Frank low against Euro? It seems like the only thing they need to do is to purchase more Euros with Francs they print, right? I usually see the opposite
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by valas 12y ago
That would not work. Most users don't care/don't know about about QoS, nor they want to learn. There was/is a ton of research on user-driven QoS, micro-payments, per-flow reservations, etc. etc. The result: there is no n
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by valas 12y ago
Yea, not sure why you are getting downvoted. Could anyone comment why downvotes? All sounds like reasonable advice (except that, of course, numbers like 85/15% is a bit handwavy, but I don't think author meant them to be precise).
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by valas 12y ago
Funny how UFO incidents diminished with advent of cellphone video/photo recording technology.
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by valas 12y ago
How do you define a "lie"? It is full of misinformation and omission of fact which then creates a false narrative. There are a few options then: a) Assange is omitting important facts intentionally (which I don't think is the
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by valas 12y ago
The original story tries to implicate Google in opening their servers for "full take" data feed. XKeyscore was a program to analyse data siphoned from wiretaps. This is what caused that infamous ppt slide "SSL Removed Here ;-
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by valas 12y ago
Google and Facebook long ago stopped asking (or at least now they discourage their interviewers from asking) puzzle-like questions in their SWE interviews.

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